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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results it was more humane to judge by intentions.
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Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.
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In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
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Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.
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Evil people always support each other that is their chief strength.
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If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
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A hard life improves the vision.
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If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
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Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.
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Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.
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The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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The less you speak, the more you will hear.
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
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What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.
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